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This is so intense.Amnesty International is renewing its call on the Japanese government to accept full responsibility for wartime crimes against women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army.
“Japan should immediately implement effective administrative mechanisms to provide full reparations to all survivors and remove legal barriers toward bringing claims before Japanese courts by reforming national laws,” Purna Sen, director of the London-based human rights watchdog’s Asia-Pacific Program, said Friday.
He made the remarks at a press conference in Bangkok to launch a report titled “Still Waiting After 60 years: Justice for Survivors of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery System.”Amnesty estimates that up to 200,000 women from China, the Korean Peninsula, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Netherlands were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. Many were less than 20 years old, and some were as young as 12.
The Amnesty report says the government denied responsibility for the “comfort women” system until direct evidence was discovered by professor Yoshimi Yoshiaki in 1992. In 1993, it admitted the military had forced Asian women to serve as sex slaves and offered an apology.

But it has consistently refused to pay direct compensation to individual victims, saying all war claims were officially settled by postwar treaties.

Don’t tell me not to be suprised. No matter how many times we report crazy stats like this, I am suprised, shocked and deeply disturbed.

Feminists: making everything harder for god-fearing gentlemen who feel entitled to get laid. We’ve come a long way from the good old days when men had a right to sex with their wives regardless of women’s opinion on the matter (marital rape was legal in the US until the 20th century). With the evil witch-hands of feminism continuing to reach into our bedrooms, we have to ask: will The Feminists now make us all sign a contract on an app before getting busy?

Well, dear reader, wait no more. The sex apps are here, and they’re intended to do just that. Since consent is now in vogue, app developers have done what ...

Feminists: making everything harder for god-fearing gentlemen who feel entitled to get laid. We’ve come a long way from the good old days when men had a right to sex with their wives regardless of women’s ...

Over dinner one night, a group of New York-based Asian organizers, activists and scholars gathered to discuss the questions: “Is Asian American Feminism necessary?” and “Am I part of Asian American Feminism?”

The questions come up often due, in part, to the myth of the “model minority,” the dominance of East Asian issues within the space, and the subsequent erasure of all other Asian Americans.

Over dinner one night, a group of New York-based Asian organizers, activists and scholars gathered to discuss the questions: “Is Asian American Feminism necessary?” and “Am I part of Asian American Feminism?”

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments for Janus v. AFSCME, a case that could disrupt the financial sustainability of union organizing in at least 22 states.

Mark Janus, the plaintiff of Monday’s case, wants the Supreme Court to undo a forty-year precedent decided in the 1977 ruling of Abood v. Detroit Board of Education which permits state and local government to require non-union public employees to pay partial fees to support the administrative costs of the union representing workers to their collective employer. The goal of these “fair-share” fees is to prevent non-union employees from free-riding off the benefits of ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments for Janus v. AFSCME, a case that could disrupt the financial sustainability of union organizing in at least 22 statesRead More

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